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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

(February
8, 2017 – Chicago) As
Congress moves forward with plans to reallocate funding from Planned
Parenthood, America’s largest abortion business, to comprehensive health care
centers, citizens across America will speak up in support of the action. Saturday,
February 11, groups will gather outside over 200 Planned Parenthood facilities
in 44 states and the nation’s capital to #ProtestPP. There will also be overseas support with a
demonstration at the London headquarters of the International Planned
Parenthood Federation, which was recently defunded by executive
order.

“The
federal government has been subsidizing Planned Parenthood to the tune of more
than $430 million annually,” explained Eric Scheidler, national organizer of
#ProtestPP. “This, at the same time that the nation’s largest abortion
provider holds $500 ticket fundraisers and charges a woman about $500 to abort
her baby,” he continued. “On top of that, Planned Parenthood is trafficking
baby body parts. Taxpayers are sickened to see their money spent in support of
these atrocities.”

Planned
Parenthood exaggerates their role in women’s health care. The organization
actually provides less than 2% of manual breast exams, fewer than 1% of pap
tests, and 0% of mammograms, annually.

Moving
Planned Parenthood’s funding to federally qualified health centers will offer
women and their families a wider range of health care services and a higher
standard of care.

Citizens
for a Pro-Life Society Director, Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, stated, “The
defunding of Planned Parenthood is a matter of moral principle. Not a single
cent of American tax dollars should go to an organization that kills innocent
human life.”

“We are
closer than we’ve ever been to defunding Big Abortion—Planned Parenthood. Now
is the time for a groundswell of grassroots efforts. We call on Congress and
President Trump to reallocate those funds to health centers which help women
without killing babies,” commented Mark Harrington, National Director of Created
Equal.

“Planned
Parenthood’s brand is at an all-time low and their leadership reflects how
disconnected they are from science and basic American values. This weekend
thousands of Americans will stand in peaceful opposition to send a message that
abortion is not health care and as the nation’s largest abortion operation,
Planned Parenthood should not get $1 of taxpayer money, much less $430
million," stated Shawn Carney, President, 40 Days for Life.

#ProtestPP
events, coordinated by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Created Equal, and
the Pro-Life Action League, along with 40 Days for Life and the
Susan B. Anthony List, offer Americans a united chance to speak out against
the nation’s largest abortion chain, which kills over 300,000 babies each year.
At the same time, participants will encourage Congress to strip Planned
Parenthood of its nearly half-billion dollar taxpayer-funded stipend and
redirect those monies to comprehensive health care centers through the budget
reconciliation process.

Scheidler, also serving as
executive director for the Pro-Life Action League, remarked, “This is a
nationwide event, but at the same time it is a local community concern. As
citizens gather to encourage Congress to quit sending money to an organization
that specializes in killing children, they are also declaring that they do not
want Planned Parenthood to continue operating in their neighborhoods.”

“Americans
want to end taxpayer funding of abortion – that includes stopping taxpayer
funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, and
ensuring any Obamacare replacement is pro-life, and does not allow tax dollars
or tax credits to pay for health care plans that include abortion. Planned
Parenthood is a profit-driven, abortion-centered business that has performed
more than 300,000 abortions in the last three years for which data are
available. They do not need or deserve taxpayer dollars, and redirecting their
federal funding to rural and community health centers would be a victory for
women’s health. These comprehensive clinics outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities 20 to 1
nationwide and provide far more services. The majority of Americans want taxpayer funding to go to
real women’s health care, not abortion. This Saturday, that majority will let
their voices be heard at #ProtestPP gatherings nationwide,” said Susan B.
Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.

President
Donald Trump has made four specific commitments to the pro-life movement, including
reallocating Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to comprehensive,
whole-woman health care centers. Polling in 2018 Senate battleground states shows that
voters support redirecting Planned Parenthood’s funding to community health
centers.

About
the organizers:

Pro-Life
Action League

The
Pro-Life Action League was founded by Joe Scheidler in 1980 with the aim of
saving babies from abortion through direct action, and is now headed by Joe’s
son, Eric. Not content to await a political or judicial solution to abortion,
the League seeks to stop the killing of unborn children right now through all
available peaceful means, including public protest, sidewalk counseling,
education, youth outreach, and national leadership. Visit www.prolifeaction.org
to learn more.

Citizens
for a Pro-Life Society

Citizens
for a Pro-life Society is an activist organization, founded on Catholic
principles of morality and social justice, dedicated to advocacy of the
sanctity of human life, especially protection of the right to life of unborn
children. The goal is to work to end the culture of death and restore a culture
of life, to re-establish respect for human life created in the image and
likeness of God. Visitwww.prolifesociety.net
to learn more.

Created
Equal

Created
Equal was inspired by Mark Harrington’s vision of human rights defenders
uniting to achieve collectively far more than one person.The pro-life
advocacy group implements creative new ways to challenge the industry of
abortion. Visit www.createdequal.org
to learn more.

40
Days for Life

40
Days for Life is a community-based campaign that takes a determined, peaceful
approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own
neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It draws attention to the
evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program focusing on prayer
and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach. Visit www.40daysforlife.com
to learn more.

Susan
B. Anthony ListSBA
List is dedicated to pursuing policies and electing candidates who will reduce
and ultimately end abortion. To that end, SBA List emphasizes the education,
promotion, mobilization, and election of pro-life women. Susan B. Anthony List
is a network of more than 465,000 pro-life Americans nationwide. Visit www.sba-list.org
to learn more.

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